Category Archives: Design A Dashboard

Garage Check-list Inspired Monitoring UI.

By Tom.Randle | Published: January 21, 2010
I just came across this concept UI for a monitoring widget designed by Ely Sarig. In the description he says: “The design is inspired by garage check-up sheets, displaying information on stained forms, much like a mechanic’s paperwork.” We think it’s brilliant! If only it displayed info for remote servers and SQL Server stats too…! [...]
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Design a Dashboard Prize Draw Winners!

By Adam | Published: November 17, 2009
In September we announced our Design a Dashboard Prize Draw, where we wanted to see your idea of a perfect monitoring dashboard. One of the feature requests that we heard often from v1 users of SQL Response was for a dashboard overview of the system, and we wanted more feedback on what was most important [...]
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Design a Dashboard Prize Draw update

By Adam | Published: November 2, 2009
In September we announced our Design a Dashboard Prize Draw, where we wanted you to send us your idea of a perfect monitoring dashboard. Well, we’ve had six fantastic entries so far and we’re about to enter them into the draw, but since two of our team are currently at SQL PASS, we thought we’d [...]
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Our sixth monitoring dashboard entry

By Adam | Published: October 30, 2009
The sixth entry to our Design a Dashboard competition is a submission from Iain Knight. This excellent design consists of four elements: a system overview, a server information dashboard, a performance dashboard and a database information dashboard. The main system overview contains a graphical display of your key servers, organised into customisable groups, for example [...]
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Our fifth monitoring dashboard entry

By Adam | Published: October 16, 2009
We’ve received another excellent entry to our Design a Dashboard competition. John Clark has sent us designs for a system overview and a drilled-down view of a selected SQL Server instance. The overview screen sorts alerts by their status rather than severity, using a ‘traffic light system’ of red,amber,green to identify servers as ‘not acknowledged’, [...]
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Our fourth monitoring dashboard entry

By Adam | Published: October 9, 2009
Submitted under the name ‘Steve Austin’, this design takes a graphical time-based approach to representing the state of your system. It looks at first a little like the old Defender arcade game. This approach gives you an at-a-glance update of the last 24hrs across your enterprise. Maybe the time span along the bottom axis is [...]
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Our third monitoring dashboard entry!

By Ben.Rees | Published: October 6, 2009
We’ve had another great entry for our dashboard competition, this one from Jonathan Allen. This submission contains some more conceptual designs, looking at possible approaches to representing high-level status information on a dashboard. There are three parts to the entry: Aero View of Monitored Entities This view would not be dissimilar to the Aero view [...]
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Our second monitoring dashboard entry!

By Adam | Published: October 1, 2009
We’ve received our second entry to the design a dashboard competition, another great example of an ‘at-a-glance’ overview, sent to us by Phillip Carter. Inspired by the Big Brother and Hobbit monitoring system, Phillip explains: “Each of the coloured icons is hyperlinked to more detail. There should also be an updateable knowledge base of solutions [...]
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Our first monitoring dashboard entry!

By Adam | Published: September 29, 2009
We’re delighted to announce that we’ve received our first entry to the design a dashboard competition. It’s a magnificent effort from Merrill Aldrich, who sent us a fully functional .NET application to demonstrate his ideas. As can be seen, the UI neatly displays the health state of the SQL instances. In his explanatory notes, Merrill [...]
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Design a dashboard examples

By Adam | Published: September 16, 2009
We’re still in the process of working out exactly how our dashboards might look. We’ve showed several different designs to many people, and feel we’re getting closer to the ideal dashboard. But we still want to see what your ideal dashboard looks like. One of the people we showed our designs to commented “I’m one [...]
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